Samantha Power: USAID Has Spotted Pathogens Before it Became a Pandemic Like Ebola

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POWER: "Well, USAID did so many things in so many places, and national interests were affected in a whole range of ways. When we built, when USAID built lab capacity in developing countries in Africa, that meant it was easier to spot a pathogen before it became a full-fledged pandemic. And we saw, in west Africa, the work of USAID in stomping out the Ebola epidemic at a time when one person had come to the United States and brought Ebola, but at a time where had the Ebola pandemic spread further, many, many more could have come."